The price on the ad and the price on the order are not always the same number. This month two regulators and one state law all landed on that gap. CBT News covers the FTC's settlement with Greenway Auto Group and its parallel case against Lindsay Automotive Group, alongside California's Combating Auto Retail Scams Act, now in effect. WTVB has Audi's four billion dollar Georgia plant, Auto Remarketing has Asbury selling a Kia store in Maryland, and Car Dealership Guy News reports a judge keeping the Scout and Volkswagen suit alive. Recalls round out the morning from Ford, Toyota and Hyundai, and the production wire runs long on Chery, Subaru, Canada and South Korea. Links to everything referenced in this episode: goautonomi.com/naomi

Saturday's wire splits between a quarter that just closed and a model year still a year out. The Detroit News tallies the third quarter's sales winners and losers, while Edmunds previews full-size trucks that will not reach lots until the following year. GM confirms new hybrid models and fresh Michigan money, CBT News reports, and Cadillac opens orders on a two hundred thirty nine thousand dollar Escalade. Volvo cuts twenty five hundred jobs after a quarter in the red, and Congress's new kill-switch law gets a plain-English breakdown. Chery, Leapmotor and Foxconn all move on overseas production, Motor Trader has new car demand holding steady, and a Bain survey weighs in on dealer value. One price on that list gets repeated back word for word on the floor this morning. Links to everything referenced in this episode: goautonomi.com/naomi

Sales volume isn't moving much this October, but the money underneath it is. J.D. Power's forecast has the industry buying its way to flat, with a record average payment and incentive spending up more than thirteen percent. The episode covers that math alongside a buy-sell in Asheville from CBT News, a quarter-million-vehicle power steering recall from Automotive Dive, and NADA's election of only its second female chair in the association's history, reported by Auto Remarketing. Marketing gets its own stretch too, from a dealership discoverability story to Sytner's UK profit slide and Copart's expanding reach into commercial consignment. A run of manufacturing moves, from Ford Canada's new chief executive to a Michigan plant closure, rounds out the morning. None of it changes what a desk does Monday morning, but it tells you where the margin is thinning. Links to everything referenced in this episode: goautonomi.com/naomi